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From: "Canek Peláez Valdés" <caneko@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] where did lvm installation guide go?
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 00:36:13 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADPrc83fEG0HgfNYn4KoLKh7xCQRNJ7dWAaKR-brDBCN7A7n6w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d6693248-5a42-46df-8152-ae4561586013@email.android.com>

On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 12:21 AM, J. Roeleveld <joost@antarean.org> wrote:
> gottlieb@nyu.edu wrote:
>>On Thu, Aug 29 2013, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 4:19 PM, <gottlieb@nyu.edu> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I have experience with LVM, but not systemd or dracut or initramfs
>>>>
>>>> * both grub and grub2 support lvm
>>>
>>> Does GRUB legacy handles /boot in LVM? I haven't tried that yet.
>>
>>That I don't know. I believe the LVM "companion manual" that I am
>>seeking and that I used for previous installs advised against /boot on
>>lvm (probably also /lib and others). Perhaps this was simply
>>reflecting
>>no initramfs. Hence any grub issue with /boot on lvm didn't arise.
>>
>>allan
>
> No.
>
> Grub legacy does not support LVM for the /boot.
> That's why I have it there.
>
> UEFI only understands FAT. Which means you need to have a boot partition
> outside of LVM for that.

Good to know, thanks. Another reason not to use LVM I guess.

Regards.
-- 
Canek Peláez Valdés
Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México


  reply	other threads:[~2013-08-30  5:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-29 15:47 [gentoo-user] where did lvm installation guide go? gottlieb
2013-08-29 16:56 ` [gentoo-user] " James
2013-08-29 21:02   ` gottlieb
2013-08-29 17:29 ` [gentoo-user] " Canek Peláez Valdés
2013-08-29 21:19   ` gottlieb
2013-08-30  0:30     ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2013-08-30  1:45       ` gottlieb
2013-08-30  2:29         ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2013-08-30  5:21         ` J. Roeleveld
2013-08-30  5:36           ` Canek Peláez Valdés [this message]
2013-08-30  6:10             ` Alan McKinnon
2013-08-30  7:16               ` Dale
2013-08-30 14:05                 ` Tanstaafl
2013-08-30 14:28                   ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2013-08-30 14:37                     ` Tanstaafl
2013-08-30 14:38                       ` Alan McKinnon
2013-08-30 14:59                         ` Tanstaafl
2013-08-30 14:56                       ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2013-08-31 11:31                       ` [gentoo-user] " Nicolas Sebrecht
2013-08-30 14:13               ` [gentoo-user] " Canek Peláez Valdés
2013-08-30  5:47         ` Alan McKinnon
2013-08-30  7:17           ` Dale
2013-08-30  5:21   ` J. Roeleveld
2013-08-30  6:13     ` Alan McKinnon
2013-08-30  5:21   ` J. Roeleveld
2013-08-30  5:20 ` J. Roeleveld
2013-08-30 15:18   ` gottlieb
2013-08-30 16:48     ` joost
2013-08-30 19:18     ` Alan McKinnon
2013-08-31 14:18       ` gottlieb

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